SIGNATURE PRE - PROCESING BASED ON WALSH COEFFICIENTS

Recognition and verification of persons are difficult and important tasks today. In many fields of human activities (driver’s licenses, passports, electronic cards, etc.), signature recognition of person is needed. Hence, it inspires the development of a wide range of automatic identification systems. Signatures have been used for many centuries as a method of people’s identification. Signatures recognition was performed manually by experts in the past. Nowadays, these procedures are very often automatically applied. In this paper the system that automatically authenticates documents based on the owner’s handwritten signature is presented.